Inefficiency is bad enough. Neglect and displays of cavalier response among top officials are worse.
Duterte's tries to mask failure by attacking those who stepped into the breach. This is criminal and unforgivable. #DuterteMeltdown (thread)
So many around the country still have to receive aid. Duterte wastes time with yet another angry rant. His sole goal — to hide the real costs of a presidency in perpetual idolation. That is why we got the #DuterteMeltdown
No one is surprised when Duterte hurls out one lie after another. It is the thing he's always done best.
Harry Roque issues an imbecilic response to sexist, vulgar banter of men amid groans for aid. Release of tension? Where does that logic lead to? #DuterteMeltdown
The #DuterteMeltdown was a portrait of a thug. We already know Duterte thinks it is his right to decide who dies and who lives. He sees armies, agencies, and citizens as personal property. He believes he owns everything -- and he will always find a way to wrest what’s yours.
The #DuterteMeltdown highlights the chief thug’s fetid logic: you all bear misery and pain and sorrow for the master. That logic also says no one can come to minister to those left by the wayside or those battered by the master's fists and whips and boots. This is so Tokhang

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The newspapers disappeared and the television went on the blink when I was in grade 3. Dad didn’t know how to explain events to kids who had learned early to be news junkies.
Why? we kids asked. How will we know what’s happening?
Dad, a journalist, groped for answers. He said Marcos could be hiding something or wanted to do things he wanted to keep secret.
Something bad? we asked.
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Of men strung up on poles as a warning to others fighting for the right to own land.
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(thread) On the harassment of UE Dawn editor-in-chief Joshua Molo:
Anyone can file for libel if he or she feels a person has falsely and maliciously attacked personal reputation. But the barangay’s response to the complaint went way beyond the bounds of this particular dispute.
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